The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Macintyre tells us that the internet is killing storytelling. A provocative and worthwhile essay at the UK Times from Nov 5th. "The internet... does not really 'do' narrative." :: This link is iffy; or try this alternate. ****************************************** # In an excerpt from his book of memoirs My Paper Chase , Harold Evans recounts how he and his newspaper unmasked the notorious...
The Well-Seasoned Cook (Free subscription) | yesterday
It started with a cake. It was the kind of cake that Arthur Rowe "...always liked, especially rich Dundees and dark brown home-made fruit-cakes tasting elusively of Guinness..." One did not expect to happen upon such a treat during the rationing days of World War II, when England was at constant risk from aerial bombings. It was the kind of cake that drew a crowd of admirers, longing for...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Comedian tells London's Sunday Times that he's no longer satisfied with 'calamitous promiscuity.' By Jocelyn Vena Katy Perry and Russell Brand Photo: Eric Ryan/ Getty Images Since they were first seen kissing at a VMA after party two months ago, Katy Perry and Russell Brand have been photographed together all over the world, including at her recent 25th birthday party . But Brand says he wants to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Award-winning writer renowned for thrillers such as The Rose of Tibet and The Chelsea Murders Graham Greene called Lionel Davidson, who has died aged 87, the first contemporary storyteller to have recaptured the high adventure of Rider Haggard, while Rebecca West once said he was a young Kipling. This was not hyperbole for, as a novelist, Davidson chose the international thriller form, without being...
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The first book in the Patrick Hamilton’s Gorse trilogy, part of which sourced the excellent tv series The Charmer, was The West Pier . Graham Greene generously described it as ‘the best book written about Brighton’. It was published in 1951, and was followed by Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953) and Unknown Assailant (1955). The series was actually meant to be a quartet, but the fourth...
Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
You don't want Castle canceled, so you're probably wondering... how to save a show? [Castle ABC] Save Castle... Again! How To Save A Show [The Fray] Related links: Castle: "Space Cowboy" (Firefly/Serenity) Watch CASTLE on ABC Publishing news (July 10) (ABC's fictional sleuth Richard Castle writes a book, a long-lost whodunit by Graham Greene , and Wonder Woman vs. domestic violence) Watch...
Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Well, these are a hoot for fans of actor Nathan Fillion and writer/producer Joss Whedon ... Castle: "Space Cowboy" (Firefly/Serenity) [Castle ABC] Sneak Peek at 2x06 "Vampire Weekend:" It's Just A Theory! [Oct 26 2009] Related link: Watch CASTLE on ABC Publishing news (July 10) (ABC's fictional sleuth Richard Castle writes a book, a long-lost whodunit by Graham Greene , and Wonder...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Last night, Jonathan Lethem took to the book-shaped podium at Powell's to read—in front of a not-quite-packed house—from his new novel Chronic City . The reading really impressed upon me how much most published authors could stand to learn from the average kindergarten teacher. Lethem is an excellent reader, and why? It's because he reads like he's talking to a room full of kids. He's...
Unknowing (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
If you were to progress through Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory and finally The Heart of the Matter, you would perhaps draw the conclusion that Graham Greene was trying to find the limits of the Catholic church. It is not what he was doing; the last of these was actually an attempt to [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway are both celebrated for their brutal minimalism – but how much do they owe their renown to the interventions of their editors? As two new 'original' versions of their work are published, the question of posthumous restoration has never been more vexed It's been a good year for dead writers: they have been an uncommonly busy bunch. This year sees the publication...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, who delves into how exactly the U.S convinced Hamid Karzai to hold a run-off election. The Huffington Post has excerpts below. Iran's Harshest Sentence for an Innocent Scholar , Haleh Esfandiari For me Iran's sentencing this week of Iranian-American scholar...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
After reading Graham Greene's "The Tenth Man" the other day, I was in the mood for something exciting with clear heroes and villains instead of Greene's usual brooding and flawed protagonists. [I recall reading "A Burnt-Out Case" while down in the dumps in law school. Not a wise move.] So I started Alexander Kent's "The Midshipman Bolitho" series about a young man in the...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Haleh Esfandiari Kian Tajbakhsh speaking in August at a trial of dozens of opposition protestors in Tehran (Houshang Hadi/Iranian Labor News Agency, via Associated Press) For me Iran’s sentencing this week of Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh to at least 12 years in prison—the harshest sentence so far passed down by the revolutionary court—is particularly fraught. In 2007,...
Hex Message (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The cover story about Afghanistan in this Sunday's NYT Magazine is loaded with great reporting. 1) Al Qaeda means the base. The is ironic because, like any corporate slogan, the opposite is actually true. They don't have a base. They're always hiding in the hinterlands. I like that Gen. McChrystal is on to this. And his strategy is about exposing it and exploiting it. In the military arena, McChrystal...
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) –Andrea Riseborough is heading to "Brighton Rock." The British actress will play the female lead opposite Sam Riley in the movie based on the Graham Greene novel. She replaces Carey Mulligan, who had been attached to the role. "Rock," which marks the directorial debut of "28 Weeks Later" screenwriter Rowan Joffe, originally came to the screen via Richard Attenborough in...
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